The trip was well worthwhile for Head Coach Steve Farsiou and his Flemington Post 159 squad as the Indians won the 12-team Rhode Island Firecracker Tournament championship July 3. Flemington finished the tournament by beating the Providence RBI Hawks 3-2 in the final behind a complete-game two-hitter by lefthander Richie Ferguson. Catcher Tyler Ferretti slammed the game-winning triple to... Full story »

The Blue Mountain League has 66 years of baseball tradition and has been a place for college players and older players to keep their careers alive. Some professional scouts compare it to a Class A minor league, with some talented players filling the rosters. There are nine teams that play in the summer league in some picturesque stadiums along... Full story »

Clinton/Voorhees broke out of a slight hitting slump Saturday afternoon with a 16-6 rout of Warren Hills at Voorhees High to split a busy four-game week in Senior American Legion-Pyramid Baseball League action. “From not scoring a run to scoring just about at will — well, we did hit the ball a little better tonight,” said Vikings Head Coach... Full story »

Flemington Post 159 Head Coach Steve Farsiou said his team is starting to come together since a 5-4 loss to Clinton/Voorhees the first week of the season. The Indians made it 10 wins in a row since then by blasting North Hunterdon 11-2 on June 27. “We have come a very, very long way since day one of the... Full story »

EWING TWP. — Led by quarterback Ray Mastroianni of Bridgewater-Raritan High, the West squad defeated the East 16-6 in the 16th annual Sunshine Classic All-Star football game Thursday at the College of New Jersey’s Lions Stadium. Mastroianni, named the game’s “Most Valuable Player,” threw a 15-yard touchdown pass to West Windsor-Plainsboro South’s Marty Flately with 2:54 left in the... Full story »

The 16th annual Sunshine Football Classic that pits top seniors from schools in the Delaware Chapter of the National Football Foundation and College Hall of Fame lacks that Hunterdon County flare it once had. The game kicks off 7 p.m. Thursday at Lions Stadium on the campus of The College of New Jersey in Ewing Township in an East/West... Full story »

It was a long day’s journey into night Saturday at Riegel Ridge’s William F. Case Field as Flemington Post 159 and North Hunterdon came off prior losses and handed a young and winless Delaware Valley team back-to-back losses in a doubleheader that began 3 p.m. and ended under the lights just past 9:30 in Pyramid Senior American Legion Baseball.... Full story »

Somerville Post 12’s righthanded pitching duo of Blaze Chiesca and Kevin Scholl combined on a three-hitter and struck out 10 batters Saturday during a 5-1 victory over the Clinton Vikings at Branchburg’s White Oak Park in a Pyramid American Senior Legion game. Cheisca threw the first six innings, striking out eight and walking two while hitting two batters and... Full story »

Flemington Post 159’s Matt Ramandi looped a run-scoring single to left field over North Hunterdon’s drawn-up infield with the bases loaded in the last of the eighth inning for a 3-2 opening-game win in Pyramid Senior American Legion play Sunday afternoon under a baking sun on Brown-Ingram AA Memorial Field in Whitehouse Station. Flemington had loaded the bases on... Full story »

Hunterdon Central High graduate Tim Irwin was named an Omicron Delta Kappa Sportsman of the Year at Grove City College as a senior. Irwin earned four letters as an outside linebacker for the Grove City (Pa.) football team and started each of the last three seasons. He finished second on the team last fall with 66 tackles, had an... Full story »

PHILLIPSBURG — Two Hunterdon County men, along with 20 high school senior scholar/athletes, were honored for their contributions to athletics at the annual Hunterdon/Warren Scholar-Athlete Luncheon at Flynn’s On The Hill Catering. Longtime athletic official John Becker and the late Paul Petro Sr. were honored during the May 8 event. Becker received the “Joe Steinhardt Official’s Award” for his... Full story »

It may be early June and the NJSIAA tournament is still going on. But the Hunterdon County high schools have wrapped up their seasons, which means the Pyramid American Senior Legion League season is already under way. The Pyramid Legion League has two fewer teams than last year, with five each in the North and South divisions. Gone are... Full story »

Clinton’s Joel Godett is living the dream in Myrtle Beach, S.C. The North Hunterdon High School graduate, a former sports intern at The Hunterdon County Democrat, is the new voice of the Myrtle Beach Pelicans, a Texas Rangers Advanced-A minor league team. Godett’s official title is “Director of Media Relations and Radio Broadcaster,” meaning he does all the play-by-play... Full story »

When you talk about Hunterdon County coaches with class, Mike Aversano's name always rises to the top. For more than a decade he has led the Hunterdon Central swimming program, the boys and girls teams to excellence. The pinnacle was this past winter season, when he led both teams to the school's first-ever State Sectional Titles. Full story »

After opening the season with a last-inning 6-5 loss at Warren Hills High School, the Voorhees Viking baseball team found its niche for two wins in a row to close the first week of the spring season. Full story »

RARITAN TWP. -- The 1972 Hunterdon Central High boys lacrosse team, the first lacrosse squad in school history and the only unbeaten team in program history, will be honored Saturday at halftime of the Hunterdon Central-Ridgewood game at Stewart Memorial Field. It will also mark the 40th anniversary of HCHS boys lacrosse. Steve Jacobson, a legend in the sport... Full story »

Things work quickly in major league baseball. On March 27 Jack Cust was a Houston Astro and the next day, he was a member of the New York Yankees organization. Cust, who signed a one-year non-guaranteed $600,000 contract with an option for 2013 during the winter with Houston, was released after an awful spring training during which he got... Full story »

Junior attack Garrett Thul pounded in four goals for the U.S. Military Academy lacrosse team Thursday night during a 9-8 victory over Rutgers at Michie Stadium in West Point, N.Y. Thul’s first goal was the 100th of his career and put the Hunterdon Central High graduate in an elite club of players who have accomplished that feat in Division... Full story »

Both the Hunterdon Central High boys and girls swim teams did something they’ve never done in program history this week as both earned NJSIAA state sectional championships and will move on to the State Public A tournament semifinals next week at The College of New Jersey in Ewing Township. “Holy Cow, what a week for our kids,” said Central... Full story »